AIS 65T. Topics in Indian Education

Foundations and history of Indian education, methods of teaching Indian children,
curriculum and practices for Indian education, guidance for the Indian student, problems
of teachers of Indian children, education of Indian adults.

Units: 3, Repeatable up to 9 units

AIS 90. Intro to American Indian Religion

Introduction to the concepts of religion and belief systems in American Indian societies.
Examines American Indian religion as an integration of culture, geography, economic
activity, social obligations and environmental responsibilities. Explores conflicts
and adaptations with non-Native religious systems.

Units: 3

AIS 100. American Indian Religion

American Indian religious systems, including basic concepts of religion and the sacred,
ceremonial life, medicine, functions of religious institutions and practices, and
contrast/conflict with non-Native religious systems.

Units: 3

AIS 101. American Indian Law

Concepts of laws on Indian reservations, termination, litigation and complaints, strengthening
tribal governments. Law related to Indian land and resources.

Units: 3

AIS 103. Indians of California

Prerequisite: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area D. Survey course on the ancient cultures
of California, historical development of California Indian cultures according to regional
resources, conflict between the California Indian people and various colonial forces,
arts and culture of California Indian people, and contemporary issues of California
Indians.

Units: 3GE Area: ID

AIS 160. The Politics of Indian Education

This seminar examines the interaction of politics, culture, and education, using case
studies of federal financing of Indian education in the mission, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, tribal, and public school systems.

Units: 3

AIS 170. Experience in American Indian Community

Offers students supervised field experience working for a tribe, tribal/Indian organization,
tribal school or Indian education program, public agency, or the university's Indian
organizations.

Units: 3, Repeatable up to 6 units

AIS 189. Fieldwork in Community Relations

Supervised field observation, participation, and documentation in the operation of
minority communities.

Units: 3, Repeatable up to 6 units

AIS 190. Independent Study

See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.

Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units

ANTH 2. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Prequisite: G.E. Foundation A2. Examines the nature of culture, humanity's unique
mechanism for adapting to the changing environment. Explores the varieties of human
life and explains how culture has made possible the range of different and successful
societies, from hunters and gatherers to industrial civilization. G.E. Breadth D3.
(CAN ANTH 4)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall, SpringGE Area: D3

ANTH 3. Introduction to Prehistory and Physical Anthropology

Prerequisite: G.E. Foundation A2. Examines the biological and cultural basis of being
human. Compares us with our primate relatives, traces the biological and cultural
evolution of our species from earliest ancestors, through the development of agriculture
to the emergence of civilization. G.E. Breadth D3.

ANTH 100. Concepts and Applications

This foundation course demonstrates the use of selected core concepts in research
and analysis. Acquaints students with the conceptual framework of the discipline
and the basic processes of anthropological inquiry and application of knowledge. (Formerly
ANTH 103)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall

ANTH 101. Introductory Fieldwork in Archaeology

An introduction to basic methods for archeological excavation and site survey. The
Involves a block of time in the field away from campus. Can be repeated up to two
times for credit. (Class fee $75).

Units: 3-6, Repeatable up to 12 unitsCourse Typically Offered: Spring

ANTH 101B. Advanced Fieldwork in Archaeology

Advanced methods and strategies for archeological excavation and site survey. The
course will involve a commitment by students of a block of time in the field away
from campus. Not open to studnets who have taken 101B-S.

Units: 6Course Typically Offered: Spring

ANTH 102. Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

A compendium of current thinking on language and culture from a variety of interdisciplinary
perspectives. Examines the nature of language, language description, language and
worldview, gendered speech, ethnicity and language, power and performance, verbal
and nonverbal art, and associated theories and research methods.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Spring

ANTH 104. History and Theory of Anthropology

Prerequisite: ANTH 100. A history of the growth of anthropological thought through
an analysis of the informational and explanatory powers of five major theoretical
schools: Nineteenth-century Evolutionists, British Functionalists, Boasian Historical
Particularists, Neo-Evolutionists/Marxists, and Cognitivists.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Spring

ANTH 105W. Applied Anthropology

Prerequisite: G.E Foundation and Breadth Area D, satisfactory completion (C or better)
of ENGL 5B or ENGL 10 graduation requirement, to be taken no sooner than the term
in which 60 units are completed. Examination and assessment of the use of anthropological
data and concepts to address contemporary issues in education, health care, law, environmental
planning, and social services. Students work on applied problems and write observations,
plans, reports, and research documents geared to the needs of professionals, service
providers, and particularly planners in modern institutional contexts. (Formerly ANTH
144W)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, SummerGE Area: M/I

ANTH 111. Ethnographic Fieldwork

An introduction to ethnographic field methods. Topics include the ethics of fieldwork,
organizing data, and ethnographic writing. Students will conduct fieldwork on cultural
locally. Can be repeated up to four times for credit.

Units: 3

ANTH 111B. Intermediate Ethnographic Fieldwork

Prerequisite ANTH 111A. Students conduct an enthnographic field project under the
direction of the instructor, employing participant observation. Involves field trips
and weekend sessions. Involves a commitment of a block of time away from campus.
Not open to students who have taken 111B-S.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Spring

ANTH 115. World Cultures

An examination of contemporary issues in anthropology based on evidence from both
classical and modern ethnographies. Considers strategies of qualitative research and
reporting, including ethics and the application of ethnographic research in modern
societies. (Formerly ANTH 129T)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Spring

ANTH 116W. Anthropology of Religion

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area D, satisfactory completion (C or better)
of the ENGL 5B or ENGL 10 graduation requirement, to be taken no sooner than the term
in which 60 units are completed. Examines the patterned belief systems of the world's
tribal, peasant, and sectarian societies. Stresses the role of religion in individual
and group perception, cognition, ritual, and social organization. Topics include myth,
magic, shamanism, mysticism, witchcraft, trance, hallucinogens, and cultism. Meets
the upper-division writing skills requirement for graduation. G.E. Integration ID.
(Formerly ANTH 150W)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, SummerGE Area: ID

ANTH 117. Anthropology of Health, Illness, and Healing

A cross-cultural examination of health practices and cultural assumptions on which
they are based. Reviews ethnomedicine, ethnopsychiatry, and epidemiology in the health
care systems of diverse cultures and of ethnic communities in pluralistic societeis
such as the United States. (Formerly ANTH 155)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Spring

ANTH 118. Women: Culture and Biology

(ANTH 118 same as WS 170.) A cross-cultural and interdisplinary analysis of the determinants
of female statuses and circumstances. Examines theories, including biological and
cultural determinism, which explain variations in the expression of sexuality, maturation,
reproduction, and the life cycle. (Formerly ANTH 170)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall

ANTH 119. Law and Culture

A comparative, holistic perspective on the evolution of law. Examines its natures
and origins, the basic assumptions behind legal systems, their cross-cultural expression
and effects, and the directionality of legal evolution. (Formerly ANTH 146)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Spring

ANTH 120. Ethnic Relations and Cultures

Prerequisite: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area D. The cultural and social origins
of ethnicity, and its opportunities and problems for contemporary mass societies.
Offers a critical review of major theories on ethnic politics, economics, and ideology
in the light of cross-cultural evidence. G.E. Multicultural/International MI. (Formerly
ANTH 172)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: SpringGE Area: M/I

ANTH 123. Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia

Prerequisite: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area D. An introductory survey of the cultural
and historical adaptations of societies in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam;
and of Insular societies in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Examines the
major effects of culture contact between East and West. G.E. Multicultural/ International
MI.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: FallGE Area: M/I

ANTH 124. Peoples and Cultures of East Asia

Examines cultural pluralism. Considers cultural adaptations and change among minorities
such as Moslems, Tibetans, and Mongolians in China, and ethnic groups of Japan and
Korea. Outlines kinship, religion, organization, and technological factors in the
Asiatic culture complex.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Spring

ANTH 125. Tradition and Change in China and Japan

(ANTH 125 same as HUM 140.) Examines the current aspirations and problems of the Chinese
and Japanese in terms of their traditional cultures, and explains how their histories,
values, world views, and intellectual traditions affect their lifestyles and their
international relations today.

ANTH 130. Peoples and Cultures of the Southwest

A survey of Native American cultures of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern
Mexico from their prehistoric origins to the present. Emphasis is placed on cultural
continuity and change during the past 400 years of contact with western culture. (Formerly
ANTH 127)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall

ANTH 135. Muslim Communities in the Middle East

A survey of both rural and urban Muslim cultures and societies in the Middle East.
Emphasizes the variety of lived experiences of Islam, gender and ethnic relations,
and the impact of the West.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall

ANTH 138T. Topics in Cultural Anthropology

Prerequisite: varies with title. Special studies in the theory and practice of organized
cooperation and conflict in nature and culture. (Formerly ANTH 149T)

ANTH 140. Contemporary Archaeology

Examines archaeological theory (both historical and contemporary) as well as methods
and techniques used by archaeologists to gather, analyze, and interpret data. (Formerly
ANTH 106)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall

ANTH 141. Prehistory of North America

Traces the development of Native American cultures from the Arctic to Mesoamerica,
from the peopling of the continent to early historic times. Examines the archaeological
evidence for the antiquity, spread, and variation of cultural adaptations to changing
ecological conditions. (Formerly ANTH 131)

Units: 3

ANTH 142. Old World Prehistory

Examination of current knowledge of the prehistory of one area of the Old World. Chronologies,
current findings, and important issues in theory method are reviewed. Consideration
of these matters in relation to work in archaeology throughout the world and to work
in closely related disciplines such as biology and geology. Some historic archaeology
may also be included. Areas include Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia.
(Formerly ANTH 132)

Units: 3

ANTH 143. Archaeology and Prehistory of California

Origins and prehistory of the California Native Americans. Examination of the archaeological
record, both statewide and regionally, with emphasis on adaptations to natural and
social environments from 12,000 B.P. until early historic times. (Formerly ANTH 139T)

Units: 3

ANTH 145. Cultural Resources Management

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area D. Provides an in-depth overview of
historic and prehistoric cultural resources (districts, sites, buildings, and objects),
their significance, and their management in the U.S. Topics include the legal context
for CRM, identifying and evaluating cultural resources, assessing effects, treatment
planning, and careers in CRM. G.E. Integration ID. (Formerly ANTH 139T)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: FallGE Area: ID

ANTH 159T. Topics in Archaeology

Prerequisite: varies with title. Special studies in archaeological methods, techniques,
history and theory, or of prehistoric culture areas not covered in the regular curriculum.
(Formerly ANTH 139T)

ANTH 161. Bio/Behavioral Evolution of the Human Species

Prerequisite: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area B. Examines the evolution of the human
species and its relationship to living and extinct primates. Explores the biological
basis of human culture. Integrates evolutionary biology, geochronology, and anthropology
in order to understand the bio/behavioral nature of modern man. G.E. Integration IB.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall, SpringGE Area: IB

ANTH 162. Primates

An introduction to the study of primate biological and behavioral evolution. Explores
sociobiological theory in order to explain the unity and diversity of social behavior
in prosimians, monkeys, and apes.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall

ANTH 163. Human Variation

A cross-cultural examination of variations in human morphology, physiology, and biochemistry.
Establishes the correlation between variations in human biology and variations in
climate, culture, nutrition, and disease.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall

ANTH 164. Human Osteology

Introduces a range of analytic techniques for extracting information from human skeletal
remains: sexing and aging, osteometry, odontometry, the examination and diagnosis
of epigenetic traits and pathological lesion, and the statistical interpretation of
skeletal data.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Spring

ANTH 169T. Topics in Physical Anthropology

Special studies of the discovery and interpretation of information in physical anthropology,
and of the application of this subdiscipline in legal, medical, and scientific research.

ANTH 169T. Osteological Analysis

The course entails the analysis of old Forest Service archeological collections looking
through the animal bones recovered to separate out misidentified human remains. The
focus will be on distinguishing human from non-human remains, recovered in archaeological
deposits, the taphonomic processes that affected these assemblage(s), including temperature,
scavenging, etc. The course will hone the existing skills of students who have taken
Human Osteology (ANTH 164) or allow them to get experience if they have not.

ANTH 190. Independent Study

ANTH 192. Directed Readings

Supervised reading on a student-selected topic outside the regular curriculum, conducted
through regular consultation with a faculty sponsor.

Units: 1-3Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ANTH 193. Internships in Anthropology

Interns will work on a variety of tasks involving the analysis and curation of archaeological
collections; design and curation of museum displays; the collection and analysis of
physical anthropological data, including working with primates at local zoos; and
ethnographic data collection. (Formerly ANTH 109)

Units: 1-6Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ANTH 194. Honors Thesis

Development of a student report or paper into a manuscript of professional and publishable
quality. Requires approval by an Honors Committee of three faculty members. (Formerly
ANTH 199)

Units: 1-3Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ANTH 195. Colloquium

Each spring semester students and department faculty will meet three times to discuss
current problems in the field of anthropology. These three hour seminars will be led
by a faculty member. Students will be expected to do all assigned readings and complete
a paper on one of the topics discussed.

Units: 1Course Typically Offered: Fall

ANTH 197T. Current Topics in Anthropology

Subject matter of these courses combines topics from the various subfields of anthropology,
providing the student with a more integrated view of the discipline.

ASAM 15. Introduction to Asian Americans

Prerequisite: G.E. Foundation A2. Historical, social, and psychological factors in
the changing status and identity of Americans from Asia. Examines variables such as
cultural heritage, family organization, intergenerational conflict, and the experience
of racism in the changing world of Asian Americans. G.E. Breadth D3.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall, SpringGE Area: D3

ASAM 30. Japanese Americans in the United States

A survey of social adaptations and cultural changes among Japanese Americans in different
communities such as California and Hawaii. Considers identity, marginality, acculturation,
and cultural traditions in Japan and in American communities.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall

ASAM 110. Asian American Communities

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area D. A multidisciplinary study of Asian
American communities and their relations with the larger society. Analyzes values,
lifestyles, processes of group identity and boundary maintenance, social organization,
and cultural change. Examination of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and other Asian American
subcultures. G.E. Multicultural/International MI.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall, SpringGE Area: M/I

ASAM 138. Asian Amer Women

Addressses race, ethnic, and class issues from the vatage point of Asian American
women. For Asian American women. For Asian AMerican and Southeas Asian communitites,
the status of women has long been neglected. Yet women play an important role in the
family and its economy even as tehy enter new roles in U.S. society. Helpful to students
in sciences and applied fields.

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Fall

ASAM 140. Southeast Asian Americans

Since the Immigration Act of 1965 the Asian American population has grown dramatically.
This course focuses on recent issues that are facing new arrivals and supplements
a history of Asian American communities (e.g., ASAM 110). Useful to students in education,
social work, health sciences, the social sciences, and many other fields. (Formerly
ASAM 180T)

Units: 3Course Typically Offered: Spring

ASAM 180T. Topics in Asian American Studies

Prerequisites: ASAM 15, permission of instructor. Detailed consideration of a single
topic concerning the past or present position of Asian Americans in U.S. society.